rearl (rer)

[Early mod. E. also reer, rere, also dial. rare; Off with the traitor's head, And rear it in the place your father's stands. Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6. 86. And higher yet the glorious temple rear'd Her pile. Milton , P. R., iv. 546. 2. To form by raising or setting up the parts of; lift up and fix in place ce the materials of; erect; construct; build. Seint dauid aboute this holi zerde a strong wal let rere. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 28. O'er his Grave a Monument they rear'd. Congreve, Iliad. 3t. To raise from a prostrate state or position; uplift; exalt. The Ladie, hearing his so courteous speach, Gan reare her eyes as to the che are full light. Spenser, F. Q., VI. ii. 42. In adoration at his feet I fell Submi ; he rear'd me. IMG:content-1709.png:[blocks in formation] 6t. To carry off, as by conquest; take away by or as if by lifting; wrest. See raise1 , ro 6. He, in an open Turney lately held, Fro me the honour of that game did reare . Spenser , F. Q., IV. vi. 6. 7t. To cause to rise to action; stir up; rouse. Item, the Kyng cometh to London ward, and, as it is seyd, rereth the pepyll as he come. Paston Letters , I. 506. Into the naked woods he goes, And seeks the tusky boar to rear , They were not in any hope that the cit ye wold hastelye consent to rere war. Golding , tr. of Cæsar, fol. 201. The waves come rolling, and the billowes rore, For not one puffe of winde there did appeare, That all the three thereat woxe much afrayd, Unweeting what such horrour straunge did reare . Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 22. 4989 or a position lying backward; the background of a situation or a point of view. Tom Pipes, knowing his distance, with great modesty took his station in the rear . Smollett , Peregrine Pickle, ii. Crook. conducted his command south in two parallel columns until he gained the rear of the enemy's works. P. H. Sheridan , Personal Memoirs, II. 37. thing which is placed or comes last in order or 2. The back or hinder part; that part of any in position. His yeomen all, both comly and tall, Did quickly bring up the rear . Robin Hood and Maid Marion (Child's Ballads, V. 375). Like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear , O'er-run and trampled on. rearward a seam of coal having an inclination of more than thirty degrees. rear-guard (rer'gärd), n. [Early mod. E. rere- garde , for * areregarde , ariere - garde , ar- riere - garde , F.arrièregarde , rear-guard; as rear3 + guard, n. Cf. rearward .] Part of an army detached during the rear, especially in retreating when the at- during a march for the protection of tacks of a pursuing enemy are feared. We can nat se aboute vs, nor haue knoledge of your reregarde nor vowarde. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., II. cxiii. reargue (rē-är'gū); v . t . [ argue .] To argue over again.